What is Things as They Are?

We are a small but growing network of young artistic people with lived experience of mental ill health. This may be mental health problems we have experienced ourselves, or perhaps the experiences of someone we know. We are aged 14 -25, and work with teaching artists at York St John University and beyond. We aim to meet regularly to create, design and tell our way through the world and let people know what it is truly like to be young in 2017. We are ready to tell things as they are!